The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-01-27
A eRrPsAcK containing dynamite exploded

A GRIPsACK containing dynamite exploded
In baggage car near Altoona, Pa, recent
ly, blowing the roof of. The baggage man
was quite seriously injured. The owner OF
the gripsack was arrested.
The lower house Of the Illinois Assembly
has passed bill sppropriating $4,000 for
the erection of monument to General John
A. Logan at Chicago.
"Doc'' LEVI WILSON (Moen's tormentor)
was arrested at Providence, R l., the other
day on complaint Of his father-in-law, Mr..
Caleb Farnum. Mr.. Farnum was Wilson's
bondsman in suit brought against him for
seduction, the case being an old one. Mr..
Farnum believed that he had found out the
true character Of Wilson, and that he was
intending to leave the State.
ONE of the large grain elevator boilers Of
Newport News, Va, exploded recently,
tearing the brick boiler-house to pieces.
Samuel Robinson, assistant fireman, was
killed. W. McRae, fireman, was terribly
scalded, and DAVID Scott, Richard Jordan
and William Narcese, colored laborers, were
badly burned.
IT is reported that the German Govern
ment confiscates the property OF and con-
demns to prison by default all the residents
of Alsace-L Lorraine who evade the conscrip-
tion by emigrating.
Two nedVy Ice ROTBeS, edCu JWO ullAoS lung
and from five to twelve feet high were re-
Gently reported on the Monongahela river,
between Monongahela City and Elizabeth,
Pa The water had backed up, and for
time the bottom lands in the surrounding
country were threatened with inundation.
A SPECIAL from Ottawa, Can, says: "Of.
ficials of the Fisheries Department look on
the Fisheries bill as game of bluff. They
say it is poor return for six months free
use of the Canadian fisheries under prom
Use of the President of the United States
that the fisheries commission would be ap-
pointed at the next meeting of Congress,
which promise has not been carried out"
AsTROLoGER DE LEON has been convicted
at New Y ork of sending girls to Panama for
immoral purposes The case excited consid-
cradle interest some time ago on its publca-
ton.
Four Pinkerton detectives have been ar
rested for killing boy named Hogan at
Jersey City, n j., recently. The detectives
| fired into a crowd who were jeering them.
ORDERS have been issued in Russian Po-
land forbidding the expectation of horses
| to Austria or Prussia.
| New ZEALAND has annexed the Kermadrt
| Islands in the South Pacific.
THREE men were seriously scalded at
| Lincoln, ILL.,, recently by vat of hot soap
| grease suddenly opening upon them.
THE New Westminster (B. c. Hotel
| burned the other morning, catching fire in
an unknown place. 1t was so quickly con-
sumed that three guests were burned to
death.
JUDGE SCoTT, of st. Clair County, Mo.
the fugitive from United States Court pro
cess servers, has been captured by Deputy
Marshal Willis. The judge had been in
hiding several months, the people being in
hearty sympathy with HIM in his refusal to
make tax levy to satisfy the fraudulent
Tebo Il Neosho railway bonds issued in
1868.
Four hundred employees of the Universal
Rubber Company at Jersey City, N. j.,
struck on the 21st.
JAMES BURKE, roller employed at the
Columbia rolling mill, Lancaster, Pa, fell
into the rolls the other day and was drawn
through twice. He received terrible in,
juries and died soon afterwards.
THE dead body of a man named Brown, q
logger, was found under the ice in the
slough at Alton, ILL.,, recently. He had been
missed for two or three days.
JOHN PATTON, JR., 4 Co, OF London,
owners of the Monarch line, have failed.
j. b. BUTTON, postmaster of Augusta,
Wis, has been arrested for short accounts.
Much uneasiness is expressed over the
appearance of smallpox in New York.
REPORTS show that all the missing fisher
men who were supposed to have been lost
by the breakup of lake ice near Buffalo, N.
Y, recently reached shore in safety Some
had very narrow escapes.
THE Goodyear rubber glove factory at
Waterbury, Conn, has closed down for
want of coal. One thousand hands are
thrown out